I have a Humanities degree from Brigham Young University with emphases in Art History, Italian Language, and Studio Art. I'm CRAZY about the visual and performing arts! I enjoy playing classical piano, painting & sketching, singing & acting, and especially writing poetry & prose.

But my real passion is PEOPLE. I love to watch and study what makes us tick as human beings. I'm definitely a dreamer, and my favorite thing to do is weave together sublime settings and stories for characters to live and learn in...myself included.

I currently live in an enchanted fairy-princess castle in Dallas, Texas, with my three often-adorable children and their three seldom-adorable cats.

Riven

Fiction, Fantasy, Juvenile Fiction, Suspense

Triggered by the return of her childhood abuser and unable to cope with reality, seventeen year-old Emily slips into the First Realm, an elaborate fantasy world she created as a little girl. Emily is powerful in the First Realm, maybe even more powerful than her attacker. It would be so easy to stay there, to lose herself in enchantment...to lose herself in love. But something sinister lurks in the forest shadows. Emily soon discovers her demons have followed her inside her fairytale. They're hunting her. With the help of the Fae, she frantically searches for the weapons she needs to defeat her greatest fears and escape back to reality, before the man who tortured her can prey on her younger brothers and sister, too. Time is running out...

Primed

Fiction, Fantasy, Juvenile Fiction, Suspense

With her Attachments severed, Emily is groomed for the throne. Concerned by the Queen's bitterness and devastated by her inability to bond with her siblings, Emily strikes a bargain...if she can pass a series of Trials, she can choose her own Connections. Meanwhile, the High Queen refuses the terms of Drake's peace treaty. Drake calls for any and all outcasts affected by the Queen’s rigid intolerance to join him. He plans to lay siege to the Royal City unless the Queen turns over his youngest children…Aidan and Claire, a sacrifice the Queen is willing to make. Emily realizes she is powerless to defend them against so many enemies. Her only hope is to teach them to protect themselves.

Secret Keeper

Fiction, Fantasy, Juvenile Fiction, Suspense

With Ava's help, Emily has accepted her past and made peace with her demons. She's won the first battle, but the war still rages. Dad's home from prison and Mom's out of rehab. Emily finds the strength to speak her secret, but everyone has their own agenda and wants to use her as a pawn in an epic family power struggle. Confused and afraid, Emily spends more and more time in her fantasy world, where she devotes herself to healing wounded Fae with her unique ability to Connect. But is her power a blessing or a curse? Before long, she's addicted to Attraction. Torn between her growing feelings for both Kaillen and Gabe, Emily becomes convinced she is unworthy of trust and intimacy because of what happened to her as a child. What if the only way to save the people she loves is by removing herself from their lives?